Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Careers

02/22/2018

We love seeing how creative and brilliant our physicians are.

Three Boston-based medical professionals have created their own brand of high-tech equipment.

02/20/2018

"It was as though we'd found the tumors' lipogenic, or fat production, switch," explains Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC. "The implication is, if there's a switch, maybe there's a drug with which we can block this switch and maybe we can prevent metastasis or even cure metastatic prostate cancer."

A team from the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has been studying the mechanisms behind the metastatic progression of prostate cancer. They've found that a high-fat diet could play a major role in promoting metastasis of what is generally an "indolent" disease.

02/14/2018

We wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you have a joyful, loving day. (And hey, if you're on shift today... just celebrate this weekend! Valentine's can be any day, right?)

02/14/2018

Interesting issue. See what our own Dr. Huma Farid has to say on the subject.
What are your thoughts?

As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers

02/09/2018

We're always innovating new ways to better care for our patients.

Leaders of the "participatory medicine" movement write that patients should be partners in their care, rather than passive recipients.

02/07/2018

"Now, researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have demonstrated that genetic variations driving prostate cancer determine the composition of the immune cells that have been found to infiltrate primary prostate tumors."

The field of immunotherapy -- the harnessing of patients' own immune systems to fend off cancer -- is revolutionizing cancer treatment today. However, clinical trials often show marked improvements in only small subsets of patients, suggesting that as-yet unidentified variations among tumors result....

02/05/2018

Dr. Freeman, you are an inspiration. We're lucky to have you.

Running a methadone clinic downtown and your own medical practice uptown would stretch thin even the best people in the field. But for 91-year-old Melissa Freeman, it’s effortless.

02/01/2018

Did you hear the news?? We're expanding! We're going to have a new building at our medical school!

The expansion, slated to be built along Brookline Avenue in the hospital's West Campus, will comprise ten floors and contain 345,000 square feet of space.

01/31/2018

We're excited to be working towards a 10 story new inpatient facility! This will be a big step forward for both our patients and our doctors.

Aging facilities and the increasingly acute, complex needs of its patients are behind Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s proposed 10-story inpatient facility that would offer up to 158 single-bed private rooms, advanced operating and procedure rooms, and new clinical service and support spaces...

01/30/2018

We believe it's important for everyone to have access to reliable information about mental health.

The program will focus on recognizing the signs of mental health problems.

01/26/2018

Hm. What do you prefer?

Using structured reports in interventional radiology (IR) is preferred by radiologists and referring physicians, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

01/19/2018

“We need to do a much better job of identifying predictive biomarkers—not just looking at immunohistochemistry, but RNA sequencing, and whole-exome sequencing,” said McDermott, director of the Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the successes with immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma and gave his insight on the future treatment of these patients.